Après much longed-for afternoon showers, subtle sunset hues in the lee of #Arunachala 🏜️

🔥 ineffable intensities while joining 50,000 devotees barefoot around the Mountain of Fire on Arunachala GuruPurnima GiriPradakshina 👣

i know those who speak do not know you know those who know do not speak we know

My very favourite person, the ever-effervescent, inimitable #KVS, now in his 10th decade and in his own words "ready for departure", then quotes #Rumi in the original Persian: "Morg raftan nist, residan est" (death is not departure, but arrival) and laughs infectiously.

High noon ☀️ Sheltering in a sliver of shade ⛱️ Under fierce summer sun 🌞 Divine boon ☂️

At the #EndOfTheRoad No driver, no seat At #Arunachala's Feet.

It is always a reminder, how the sere #Tiru summer at #Arunachala persists strongly into July, even as the south-west monsoon plays hide-and-seek over the rest of India. Ipomoea carnea, the morning glory bush, gracefully displays its extreme resilience under severe conditions.

Antix at the feet of #Arunachala 🐜

Magnificent #MahaKumbhAbhishekam ritual re-consecration of ancient #Adiannamalai Temple at the feet of sacred Mt #Arunachala today.

#Dawn #cloudscape, #Arunachala 🙏🏼

#EarlyBird over #Arunachala

#Arunachala #dusk On the edges of #Tiruvannamalai, streetlighting meets darkening sky and rapid #urbanisation encroaches upon tenacious #paddyfields, flooded and ready for planting, all in the silent shadow of a sacred mountain.

#Arunachala #dawn

#Arunachala #sunset

#Arunachala #sunrise #clouds

Subtle hues of sky and lake, #Arunachala and #SamudramEri.

Late afternoon sunlight slants across the #SamudramEri #lake, where livestock leisurely graze and distant thunder echoes behind rain-bearing clouds over #Arunachala 🌦️

#Arunachala, #grey with a smidgen of #rain.

#Arunachala, a patch of #blue ☁️

#Arunachala #Still #Raw

#Arunachala #Still #Blue

#Arunachala #RealFeel 🔥 #Sapphire #Blue 💎

#Arunachala #RealFeel 🔥 #IntenseBlue

#Arunachala RealFeel 🔥°C

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. ~ William Blake

Connecting is everything 📱 📳

"I may not have the uniform, but I have the spirit!" ~ Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnan

#ParaGliding off #KasarDevi #Almora

Spry as teens but wiser, Kumaoni grandmoms stride along the forest path atop the #KasarDevi ridge, fleet and sure of foot, supported by bendy sticks and lit by the fading light of the setting sun, within sight of #Almora.

Waxing moon, gathering clouds.